A six-foot-long python was rescued from the outskirts of Siliguri on Tuesday.

Residents spotted the snake in a godown in the morning and informed the Baikunthapur forest division.

A team from Dabgram forest range reached the spot and rescued what was identified as a Burmese Python.

The snake will be released into the wild in due course, foresters said.

Wild elephant

A wild elephant strayed intoSilaidangi, also on the city’s outskirts, from neighbouringBaikunthapur forest on Tuesday morning, and damaged a couple of hutments.

Foresters located the animal and steered it back to the forest.

CBI officer hurt in accident

Cooch Behar: A CBI officer and two others suffered serious injuries in a car-truck collision in Cooch Behar on a foggy Tuesday morning.

Police suspect that the accident occurred because of low visibility amid dense fog cover. Probe has started.

Sources said CBI inspector Afsar Alam was traveling with Vivek Trivedi, a public prosecutor of the central investigating agency, to Mathabhanga from Cooch Behar in a car. Around 11am, as the vehicle reached Bhogbari-Kesaribari on the Cooch Behar-Mathabhanga state highway, the vehicle collided head-on with a truck.

Bystanders informed police. Alam, Trivedi and the driver were taken to the nearby primary health centre in Nishiganj. Later, Alam and Trivedi were shifted to a private nursing home in Cooch Behar. The driver was taken to MJN Medical College and Hospital for surgery and then shifted to the nursing home.

Police have seized both vehicles.